This website aims to present the history and genealogy of the SIROIS-DUPLESSIS family. It focuses on the descendants of Francois Sirois dit Duplessis, an immigrant from France, who settled in Rivière Ouelle, in the Kamouraska region of Québec sometime around the year 1700. It also contains other ancestral lines for some of Francois' descendants.
Francois married twice and fathered at least thirteen children. In the late 1700's his descendants began to spread out from Kamouraska, primarily moving up and down the southern shore of the St Lawrence River and southeast into the St John River valley along the New Brunswick - Maine border.
Today most of his descendants to whom the family name has been passed on are known as Sirois, a few are known as Searway, and some King -- a partial translation of Sirois. One branch of the family dropped the Sirois name and carry today as their surname Duplessis or a variation of it, like Duplisea.
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The website's genealogical database is located on Rootsweb. This page explains more about the database and contains links to it. |
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Information on the origins, evolution and current forms of the Sirois dit Duplessis surname is presented here |
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Early Sirois dit Duplessis history in Kamouraska, Quebec. |
| History of Joseph Duplessis and his descendants, the Duplessis families of New Brunswick and Maine. | |
| Sources and acknowledgements |